What a wonderful place !! The view was beautiful, we drove along the 8 highway and had spectacular views from aroubd 40km away. It liyerally took our breat away when we came over the mountains and saw the snowy mountains.
When we got there it was around 4pm , we went to the observatoru but it said it closed at 5pm so we went to the church and took photos, went to the lookout and took loads of photos there. Then we wanted to wait till sunset so we could try to see the milky way but as the clocks had gone forward we had a few hours to wait. We had already had a subway so we were ok for food, we found a restaurant on the front that had gorgeous views and free wifi after we bought two drinks at $9 !! Anyway i had time to send my postales and update the blog. We then watched the sunset then drove back to the lookout to see all the stars, we couldnt find the milky way but the stars were amazing !!! There were sooo many and so bright, it was beautiful. Unfortunatley they wouldnt come out on the camera so you'll just have to believe me !
We then drove through the night to a campsite in Herbert, it was a lovely setting but quite offroad, we got there around 11pm and there was only one other car. It had toilets and picnic areas. We awoke to some Nz's having a picnic and when we spoke to them , the woman had come from Hartlepool originally !! Small world. We then made our way to Dunedin.
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